Update at 10:54 a.m. December 8: Dallas police sent an update this morning concerning the discovered skull. Says the brief email: “A search was conducted and more bones were found a short distance away from the skull. The bones were weathered and had no outward appearance of trauma. The Medical Examiner took custody of the remains and will conduct further testing to determine cause of death.”

Original item at 5:59 p.m. December 7: Homicide detectives in the Dallas Police Department are investigating two unexplained deaths reported this afternoon. One involves a 33-year-old woman; the other, a human skull discovered along the side of the road.

A little after noon today, officers were called to 751 Ella Avenue near Rochester Park, where a 33-year-old woman was found dead. Right now, the police report says only that she was “deceased by unknown means.” It could take days, or weeks, before the medical examiner’s office identifies a cause of death.

About an hour later, an “unknown” caller dialed 911 to report a grim discovery along S. Central Expressway near the city of Dallas-owned-and-operated McCommas Bluff Landfill: a human skull.

Senior Corporal Demarquis Black, a DPD spokesman, said homicide detectives had no further information about either case at the moment.

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